My Audio Collection

Here are a collection of dx clippings that I have made over the years. I do have hundreds and probably thousands of hours worth of dx on old C90 cassette tapes and I really must work on getting them onto disk before they turn to dust. This is an ongoing project and I will underline any new files that I have uploaded. Most of the files on this site especially from Asia and the Pacific were recorded on DXpeditions in Australia. I was fortunate to dx from very remote regions where the noise floor was quite low. However Australia is a long way away from the rest of the world in any direction and this is why I regard a lot of this dx as good, given the distances. I still believe in that old saying “Location Location” My recording gear is pretty basic. Back in the good old days I had a good quality cassette deck and even just the old style push button cassette recorders. How did we ever dx like that? These days I have my Iriver mp3 recorder and also my now outdated Sharp Mini Disk recorder. I still love my mini disk recorder however it is time consuming to record the entire disk onto the pc and then go through the loggings. I still prefer using Cool Edit Pro software. Sadly it only runs well on Windows XP and i have had to start using Adobe Audition 2. I have tried all the other software but Audition 2 is not as heavy as the later editions and it does what I want it to. It has some nice filters especially when it comes to recording the old C90 tapes. Hiss and pop removers and also noise reducing filters. These days of course my main receiver is the Perseus SDR which is an amazing radio. Very hard disk intensive but the filtering is great. So it is very easy to run perseus and transer everything directly to mp3. Most of the Asian and Pacific files were heard from Australia. Palau

640 CMBC Radio Progresso Cuba.Now this was another one of those stations that just popped out of the splash. Not a great signal but a clear ID heard. I think this is often heard better than this.

640 Unid Sports This is an unidentified sports station which is underneath CBN St Johns at around 2358 on Saturday 26 November 2011 at Kasterlee. You will hear the the two stations merge after about 15 seconds, CBN disappears and then towards the end of the recording Radio Progresso fades up with music.

650 UNID 0200 - This is probably WSM with its country and western. Gander is heard as well on this channel // 590 but with regional ads. This clip you hear some sort of music show ID after 20 seconds. WSM is 50kw so its probably a good presumption given the format.

680 CFTR Toronto ON. Now this clip sums up what we are up against dxing in Europe. Next door on 675 is Radio Maria from Holland. Have a listen how ID’s can get destroyed. I was lucky to get this as News 680 with a mention of Toronto.

740 CFZM Toronto ON. Very tough channel with splash because of nearby 747 in Holland. It took a bit to find an audible ID. This is messy but if you listen hard you will hear the ID. Easy mentions of Toronto. 740 Heart and Soul as well. This mixes with CHCM Marystown which is // 590 VOCM.

810 khz Radio Republik Indonesia Maurake. Amazingly this is a groundwave daytime signal. The distance is 572 km at 44degrees. It was heard at about 11am local time in the Northern Territory. The station at this time is networking Jakarta // 765

1584 T8AA Palau - Power is 5 kw and distance here was 2185km. This recording is rare in the fact the Palau mostly plays back to back music. You have to be lucky to get talk. Here I was lucky enough to get an ID and Time check about 13 seconds in. You will hear that the station has terrible modulation

1098 V7AB Marshall Islands. 25kw and distance 4384km. Very hard to get clear ID from this but if you listen after the music you will hear a clear but weak V7AB then some announcements for transmissions. Almost sounded like a dx show. This was mixing with 4LG Longreach.

1449 V6AH Kolonia - Pohnpei - Micronesia. 10kw and 3186km at 49 degrees. Difficult to get an ID out of this. Not in this recording. Island music the female announcer introducing a talk about recent Tsunami and about terrorism in Indonesia and The Philippines. This station often takes Radio Australia and VOA feeds.